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Eyes East
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Lets talk about what iTunes does. Back when it first launched, it was a companion to a piece of expensive hardware, the iPod, and a way to sell music that could be played on that piece of hardware. Both are Apple products, and the two work together as seamlessly as as Windows and Internet Explorer. One company, with a well-cultivated following, a lot of marketing and slick design, figured out how ...
02-12
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Eyes East
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Its not as far fetched as you might imagine:This video has been making the rounds, but I had to post it becauseaside from being broadcast the year I was bornit says something about the way news consumption has changed in my lifetime. I hear some version of the lead in on this piece pretty regularly from members of my parents generation: I just cant imagine sitting down with my coffee and a compute...
02-09
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The toolkit for online journalists has moved to a new home with the Society for News Design. Shortly after I launched Tools for News in late December, Tyson Evans from SND emailed me about teaming up on the project. Matt Mansfield helped convince me to come on board. Chrys Wu has more on the hackathon that got it all migrated. The toolkit is now part of a growing network of apps and sites under SN...
02-04
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Eyes East
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Steve Yelvington talks about being a local expert. This pushes farther a concept Jeff Jarvis advanced a few months back: The building block of journalism is no longer the article. Matt at Newsless describes this as systematic knowledge accumulation (hes talking about within journalism, in this case, but I think its applicable here). Lets think about what that might look like a bit. For a given top...
01-29
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Funny story: Back in October, I started building little Django-powered web app that ultimately became Tools for News. Im up coding one Friday night (my girlfriend was in Guatemala at the time; Im not THAT much of a nerd) and send out this tweet:eyeseast: The little journalists toolkit I mentioned yesterday is coming together. A few good folks are testing it now. Going to try adding comments. Oct 1...
01-27
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